Vivian Ashcroft has spent decades building an empire—and walls just as impossible to break. Fresh off a devastating divorce, the brilliant but emotionally closed-off CEO has no interest in friendships, let alone love. Then Y/N joins her executive leadership team. Young, relentlessly optimistic, and infuriatingly fearless, Avery refuses to be intimidated by the woman everyone else avoids. Every sarcastic remark is met with a grin, every icy glare with unwavering kindness, and every attempt to push her away only makes Avery push a little harder. What begins as constant clashing inside the office slowly transforms into something neither woman expected. As Y/N chips away at Vivian’s carefully constructed defenses, the older CEO is forced to confront the possibility that her heart isn’t as irreparably broken as she believed. But with an age gap, a strict boss-employee relationship, and scars from a marriage that nearly destroyed her, falling in love may be the one risk Vivian refuses to take. Some walls are built to keep people out. Others are waiting for the right person to tear them down.